Finnish Student Blogs About Qtronic
We run the query for “Conformiq Qtronic” accidentally on the Finnish Google site and found an interesting blog entry in Finnish, where a guy who calls himself oopee writes about the tool… in Finnish, unfortunately. The Finnish post is linked here. Here are few comments on the post.
First, oopee deduces that a large part of the programming was outsourced but this is not actually true as all parts of Conformiq Qtronic have been developed in-house… save for the Trolltech Qt GUI toolkit of course which we are using happily since 2002.
Besides this, oopee mentions three main points why “he thinks that Qtronic is good”: open interfaces, good test generation algorithms, and convenient licensing options. It is great to hear this because we have indeed invested in (1) making the tool open and malleable and (2) having world’s best test generation algorithms!
The negative thing oopee says about Qtronic is that it is “terribly expensive”, but I guess that this becomes “less true” when you compare the tool’s price with (1) how much you pay for manual test case design and test case maintenance and (2) how much you pay for missing, incorrect, invalid and replicated test cases and the related validation and debugging efforts…